Tools- of Changes

This toolkit guides the user through the process of conducting an evaluation of any nutrition program that includes a social and behavior change component, whether it is focused on one component of nutrition (e.g., complementary feeding) or...

This scientific statement from the American Heart Association presents evidence of effective behavioral intervention programs that are feasible for adoption in primary care settings for cardiovascular disease prevention and risk management...

This toolkit provides a practical, step-by-step methodology for designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating Social and Behavioural Change Communications (SBCC) initiatives to prevent overweight in children. Its review of covers...

Data-guided, supermarket-based, dietary interventions and modern online shopping tools can improve diets. This article discusses the results of a three-month randomized field trial that promoted a hypertension-reducing diet. Adherence to...

Reframing unhealthy dietary choices as incompatible with important values (including social justice and autonomy from adult control) can be a low-cost, scalable solution to producing lasting, internalized change in adolescents' dietary...

Evidence-based interventions for public health. Includes sections on alcohol, motor vehicles, physical activity, tobacco, cancer, nutrition, pregnancy, vaccines, diabetes, obesity, sexual behavior, violence, mental health, oral health,...

Covers radio and TV public service ads (PSAs)Topics include: environment (environmental involvement, global warming, oceans), fatherhood involvement, health and safety (booster seats, child abuse, asthma, obesity, crime prevention,...

Shifting dietary choices towards vegetarian food is an urgent challenge given the environmental impact of livestock production and imminent need to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. An online randomized control trial found that...

Storewide confectionery sales declined, and fruit and vegetable sales increased, when nonfood items and water were placed at checkouts and aisle ends opposite, and an expanded fruit and vegetable section was repositioned near the store...

Includes social marketing case studies and additional resources related to breastfeeding, nutrition, obesity, and physical activity. Interactive database provides national and state-level data about the health status and behaviors of...

Contains open access research articles focusing on the behavioural features of diet and physical activity...

Whether it be displaying cabbage in an attractive bin, making whole wheat bread visible at multiple points throughout the food pantry line or adding a shelf tag that explains the health benefits of oatmeal, subtle changes to a food pantry...

Features systematic reviews that help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in crime and social justice, disability, nutrition, and social welfare....

Includes many annotated links to other web-based resources supporting social marketing and social change...

An online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organizations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social development and change Includes...

When healthier menu options were placed first on an online menu, they were chosen more often. However, the order of pacement had no effect with physical (rather than online) menus.Abstract Previous attempts to promote healthy eating using...

This document provides a brief summary of options for assessing what portion of any measured behavior changes resulted from your program and what portion resulted from other influences. These options can also be used to attribute the...

Without intervention, children and young adolescents classified as obese are likely to remain so throughout adolescence and adulthood. This study investigated whether asking early adolescents to evaluate the food choices of remote peers...

Provides photographs, illustrations and multimedia files, with image collections for environmental health, natural disasters, anatomy, biological sciences, heart health, nutrition, chemicals and drugs, diseases (including AIDS) and...

EBCCP is a searchable database of evidence-based cancer control interventions and program materials. Topics include specific cancers, diet / nutrition, obesity, physical activity, sun safety and tobacco....

The Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) was a five-year (2012 - 2017), global project funded by USAID, to strengthen developing country capacity to implement state-of-the-art social and behavior change communication (SBCC)...

This online kit includes social media messages, shareable graphics and videos....

A good, detailed, freely accessible overview of program evaluation and attribution methods....

HINTS collects nationally representative data routinely about the American public's use of cancer-related information (including specific cancers, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco.The survey: Provides updates on changing...

This report covers telephone and web-based coaching interventions for increasing physical activity, improving nutrition and reducing weight.This report covers personal health promotion interventions using telephone and web-based...

This open-access study found that the built environment, but not social and economic environments, was a strong predictor of adolescents' BMI, overweight or obesity status, and eating behaviors.The study used multivariate linear and...

Knowledge acquisition and nutrition assessment skills alone have not resulted in changes in diet among college students. An intervention that used guided goal setting and food challenges combined with video instruction helped build self...

This study suggests that eco-labelling and/or social nudges can reduce meat consumption and meet corresponding global climate change targets. This randomised online experiment aimed to investigate how eco-labelling and social nudging...

Food Recovery Network is a national nonprofit that unites students at colleges and universities to fight food waste and hunger by recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from their campus’ dining halls and donating it to...

When food is portrayed in motion, it is perceived as fresher, more appealing and healthier.Healthier food is often perceived as being less tasty. Four between-participant lab studies (N = 50, 80, 80, 102) included manipulations of food...

The experience of three American cities that implemented sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, indicates that such taxes can lead to public health improvements, with improvements concentrated among female and non-white respondents.Sugar-sweetened...

Child Trends is a leading American research organization focused exclusively on improving the lives of children and youth, especially those who are most vulnerable. Their website includes research briefs on: Child welfare, Early childhood,...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends digital health and telephone interventions that are implemented in community settings and focus on improving healthy eating and physical activity among adults interested in...

Pictures of appetizing dishes can change food choices and can be used to cost-effectively promote environmentally sustainable dishes and sustainable tourism.This scenario-based survey experiment with 742 consumers tested two interventions...

When consensus about a risk or mitigating behavior is newly developed and/or not clearly understood, communicating that consensus through teachers / instructors can be critical. While this blog entry focuses on climate change, it may also...

In March 2015, Berkeley California became the first US jurisdiction to implement a tax ($0.01/oz) on sugar-sweetened beverages. Consumption of SSBs decreased 21% in Berkeley and increased 4% in comparison cities. Water consumption increased...

Links best evidence with practice to promote effective social norms marketing campaigns to improve health on college campuses and beyond.The mission of the National Social Norms Center (NSNC) is to: advance the social norms approach...

This 2017 study compares two modes of visually presenting information  - one using photographs and the other using cartoons - on audience's knowledge, attitudes and behavioural intentions.This study compares two modes of visually presenting...

Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels that equaled those resulting from some glucose-lowering medications, according to...

Changing consumers' diets and using more efficient farming methods globally are both essential to stave off irreversible damage to the environment, a new study says.The research, from the University of Minnesota, found that future increases...

A comprehensive picture of what disables and kills people across countries, time, age, and sex. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health...

This 2016 review found that the inclusion of at least 5 SMBC domains (from the National Social Marketing Centre's social marketing benchmark criteria) in school-based interventions could benefit efforts to prevent obesity in young people...

This behavior change intervention, implemented in four wards and four communes in Vietnam for one year, included mass media communication, school interventions, community programs, and a focus on high-risk groups. It was effective in...

The aim of this 2018 systematic review was to identify effective diet interventions for older people and provide useful evidence and direction for further research. Three dietary educational interventions and all meal service related...

This 2017 study found that interventions using social marketing principles were effective at bringing about statistically significant behavior changes. Interventions designed to effectively change eating, physical activity, and smoking...

This cluster randomized trial demonstrated effectiveness of providing support for implementation of school-based nutrition policies, but not physical activity policies, to limit BMI increases among middle school students. This trial had a...

These findings demonstrate that online interventions have the capacity to influence voluntary behaviors, such as those routinely targeted by social marketing campaigns. Given the high reach and low cost of online technologies, the stage may...

The Social Norms Atlas is a collective effort led by the Social Norms Learning Collaborative to foster awareness, understanding, and the ability to address a variety of social norms as they relate to development outcomes.This document...

Positive daycare experiences with healthy foods plus a fun character can influence children to pester their parents for healthier food at home.Objective To determine if children's pester power related to a classroom-based nutrition program...

Getting children to eat their vegetables can seem like an insurmountable task, but nutrition researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found one way: school gardens and lessons on using what's grown in them. This cluster...

This 2021 systematic review synthesizes the literature on barriers to and facilitators for nutrition app use across disciplines including empirical qualitative and quantitative studies with current users, ex-users, and nonusers of nutrition...

This open-access, controlled study looked at the impacts of restricting junk food ads on the busses, subway cars, stops and stations in London, UK. It estimated a direct reduction in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and...

Getting delivery apps to position lower-calorie foods and restaurants more prominently, pre-select smaller portions by default, and/or display calorie labels, may significantly reduce the total calorie content of the meals ordered.Simple...

Findings from this systematic review and meta-analysis indicate that chatbot interventions are efficacious for increasing physical activity, fruit and vegetable consumption, sleep duration and sleep quality.Chatbots (also known as...

Low health-conscious consumers show a preference to order healthy items when exposed to incongruent magnitude representation of food calories (using a larger font size for lower calorie menu entries), particularly when the consumers...

This review suggests that peer counselling is effective for complementary feeding and may inform future nutrition programs to extend the length of peer counselling for mothers.This open-access review evaluates the effectiveness of peer...

In adults with prediabetes, medical nutrition therapy (MNT) provided by a dietitian, such as that found in lifestyle interventions, can be effective in improving glycemic outcomes, anthropometrics, blood pressure, and most lipid levels....

A 30% discount in price led to significantly increased consumption of both vegetables and diet soda. A 15% discount group showed a non-significant increase in consumption of diet soda but no change for vegetables. Diet soda intake was...

A program designed to enhance mindfulness and promote healthy behaviors led to improved self-awareness, lower blood pressure, and better adherence to a heart-protecting diet.The heart-healthy eating plan called Dietary Approaches to Stop...

In December 2023, the US Preventive Services Task Force issued a Draft Recommendation Statement that clinicians provide or refer children and adolescents aged 6 years or older with a high body mass index (BMI above the 95th percentile for...

This systematic review assessed the evidence of effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to improve body image and eating habits in men.Body Image and Eating Habits Disordered eating and body image concerns significantly impact a...

Contains reviews of research evidence on interventions related to active transportation (walking and cycling), rod safety, physical activity, heart health (cardiovascular disease), HIV / AIDS, nutrition, obesity, tobacco (smoking), conflict...

A free, searchable online registry of systematic reviews on the effectiveness of public health and health promotion interventions. The content has been quality rated. Bilingual (English and French). Topics include: AIDS, environmental...

Provides research reports and toolkits addressing a wide range of topics, and information and training on framing...